(A) study on performance of economics graduate students, Korea University : who is a good human capital in graduate school?

김경현 Graduate School, Korea University 2010 국내석사

The purpose of this investigation is to do determine a prediction model for selecting graduate students in economics area. Although economic graduate course in South Korea is similar to the one in Britain and the United States, little attention has been given to examine a student performance. Athey, Katz, Krueger, Levitt and Poterba(2007), who studied a research on economics graduate school of the United States, even said that economists devote considerable effort to graduate students education but have conducted relatively little research on the determinants of student performance or placement in the job market. As the authors' opinion, a study on performance of graduate students should be an important and urgent problem. But this paper is not concerned here with the determinants of student performance in labor market, the study will be supplemented by previous studied in section Ⅱ. The main objectives of this study were : firstly, to do a study on human capital in economics, secondly, to do a study on a group of the highest education level, and thirdly, to do a prediction on graduate students performance using pre-admission data of applicants. By analyzing this paper, we examine the sequentiality between economics required subjects of undergraduate and graduate course. And the paper can be concerned with what factors have an effect on economic graduate performance. It is important for selection process of pre-admission to cultivate outstanding scholars in graduate school. Hence, the results are expected to help screening graduate students in admissions committee.

(An) analysis on student's satisfaction and improvement strategies for credit-based spaces : focusing on the high schools with the high-school-credit-system in Seoul

장시영 Graduate School, Yonsei University 2024 국내석사

2025년부터 전국의 중고등학교에 본격적으로 새로운 교육 체제인 고교학점제가 도입될 예정이며 이는 현재 선도 학교 및 연구 학교에서 부분적으로 시행 중에 있다. 고교학점제는 학생이 스스로 진로와 적성에 맞게 수강하고자 하는 과목을 선택하고 일정한 학점 이수 기준에 도달하면 졸업이 가능한 제도로 변화된 교육과정을 수용할 수 있도록 재구조화된 교내 공간을 학점제형 공간이라 일컬으며 학습 공간, 지원 공간, 공용 공간으로 구성되어 있다. 기존 고교학점제에 관한 연구는 2020년 이전인 고교학점제 도입 초기에 진행되었다는 시기적 한계점을 가지며, 고교학점제가 본격적으로 시행되기 전 고교학점제 도입에 따른 학교 공간의 변화에 대한 관심은 높음에도 불구하고 고교학점제 시행으로 인한 학교 교내 공간 변화에 대하여 세부적으로 논의된 연구는 부족하다고 언급하였다. 이러한 이유로 본 연구는 고교학점제 도입으로 인하여 조성된 서울특별시 고등학교의 학점제형 공간에 대해 분석하고, 이 공간의 사용자인 학생을 대상으로 새롭게 조성된 학점제형 학교 공간에 대한 만족도 및 요구 사항을 알아보고자 한다. 더불어 학생이 개선을 요구하는 교내 학점제형 공간에 대한 계획 요소에 대한 개선 방안을 파악하고 적용 방안을 제안하는 것을 목적으로 한다. 또한 본 연구는 추후 고교학점제가 전국적으로 확대되어 적용되었을 때 학점제형 공간에 대한 디자인 지침이 될 수 있을 것으로 사료되며 학점제형 공간을 계획할 때 사용될 수 있을 것으로 예상한다. 본 연구는 서울특별시에 위치한 고등학교 중 연구 협조에 응해준 고교학점제를 시행하고 있는 3개의 고등학교를 선정하여 해당 학교의 학점제형 공간에 대하여 연구를 진행하였다. 연구를 수행하기 위하여 설정한 연구 방법은 (1) 선행 연구 및 사례 조사를 진행한 후, 온라인 홈페이지를 통해 고교학점제 시행 고등학교의 교내 학점제형공간에 대한 이미지 분석을 실시하였다. (2) 고교학점제 시행 고등학교의 학점제형 공간에 대한 현장 답사 사례 조사를 진행하여 온라인 사례 조사에서 조사 및 분석한 내용을 기반으로 현장 답사 사례 조사를 진행하였다. (3) 기술형 설문조사를 시행하여 교내 학점제형 공간에 대한 공간 사용자(학생)의 만족도 및 희망 개선 사항을 조사하였다. (4) Photovoice 연구 방법을 통하여 학점제형 공간에 대한 공간 사용자(학생)에 의하여 제안된 공간 개선 방안을 파악하였다. 위 네 가지 연구 방법을 바탕으로 도출한 주요 결과는 다음과 같다. 첫째, 만족도 조사 결과에서 학점제형 공간에서 학습 공간의 만족도가 가장 높게 나왔으며, 공용 공간에 대한 만족도가 가장 낮게 도출되었다. 각 공간 마다 교과 교실, 다목적실, 홈베이스에서 가장 높은 만족도를 보였으며, 일반 교실, 도서실, 휴게실에서 가장 낮은 만족도를 나타냈다. 학습 공간 중 일반 교실의‘자연적 요소가 주는 효과’, ‘교실 표찰에 대한 정보성’, 교과 교실의 ‘학습 교구 부족’, ‘책상 배치’, ‘책상의 디자인’, 지원 공간 중 자기주도 학습 공간 및 스터디 카페의 ‘소음 및 방음 문제’, ‘학습 공간의 단일화’, 다목적실의 ‘책상의 배치와 디자인’, 도서실의 ‘작은 규모’, 회의실 및 상담실의 ‘규모’, 공용 공간 중 홈베이스의‘공간 사용 목적’, ‘사물함 크기 및 배치’, 휴게실의 ‘수면 공간’, ‘규모,’ ‘휴식 지원 수단’에 대하여 평균 이하의 만족도 결과가 도출되어 개선이 필요할 것으로 파악되었다. 또한 세 개의 고등학교에 대한 학점제형 공간의 만족도를 비교해보았을 때 유의적인 차이는 나타나지 않아 학점제형 공간을 도입한 고등학교의 학생들의 교내 공간에 대한 만족도는 비슷한 것임을 확인할 수 있었다. 둘째, 교내 학점제형 공간에 대한 희망 개선점과 공간 사용자(학생)가 직접 제안한 개선 방안을 조사한 결과, 학습 공간에서는 ‘협소한 책상’, ‘의자의 크기와 높이’, 지원 공간에서는 자기주도 학습 공간 및 스터디 카페의 ‘바퀴 부착 및 딱딱한 재질의 불편한 의자’, ‘소음 및 방음 문제’, ‘공간 유형의 단일화’에 대한 개선 사항과 도서실의 ‘비효율적인 좌석 배치’, ‘좌식 공간의 부족’과 같은 희망 개선 방안이 제시되었다. 공용 공간에서는 ‘협소한 규모’, ‘푹신한 좌석의 부재’, ‘수면 공간의 부재’, ‘놀거리나 먹을거리의 부재’가 희망 개선점으로 언급되었다. 이에 따라 제안된 개선 방안으로 학습 공간에서는 깔끔하고 산뜻한 색상으로의 벽 색상 교체, 커튼의 설치, 오랜 시간 착석해도 불편함이 없는 재질로의 의자 교체, 미끄럽지 않고 단조로운 패턴의 바닥재가 적용되어야 한다. 지원 공간에서는 좌석 간 간격의 확장 및 소음에 따른 공간 마련, 편안한 의자의 도입, 화분 비치, 개인 조명 마련이 사료되어야 한다. 공용 공간에서는 휴게실 개수 및 규모에 대한 확장이 가장 우선적으로 필요하며, 누워서 휴식을 취할 수 있는 공간의 구획, 푹신한 좌석 증가, 화분 비치가 적용되어야 한다. 본 연구는 2025년부터 본격적으로 도입될 중, 고등학교의 고교학점제에 대한 학점제형 공간 구성 방향을 제안할 수 있으며 고교학점제에 따른 학점제형 공간에 대한 사용자의 반응 및 구체적인 공간 요구 사항과 개선 방안을 살펴볼 수 있다. 더불어 학생 수 감소로 늘어나는 유휴 공간을 활용하거나 기존의 교내 공간을 공간 사용자의 개선 방안을 기반으로 학점제형 공간에서 학생의 웰빙을 증진시킬 수 있는 교내 학점제형 공간의 적용 방안을 모색할 수 있다. Starting in 2025, a new education system called the High-School-Credit-System is scheduled to be officially implemented in middle and high schools throughout South Korea. Currently, this system has already been implemented in some leading schools and research schools. The High-School-Credit-System allows students to choose courses aligned with their career goals and aptitude and graduate once they meet specific credit completion criteria. To accommodate this new educational approach, internal school spaces have been restructured (referred to as credit-based spaces) and categorized into learning spaces, supporting spaces, and sharing spaces. Most of the research on the High-School-Credit-System was carried out before 2020, during the initial stages of its introduction. Despite a high level of interest in these changes to school spaces, there is a lack of detailed studies specifically discussing the transformations in school spaces resulting from the implementation of the High-School-Credit-System. Such a study is prudent prior to the system’s widespread adoption. This study analyzed credit-based spaces in Seoul high schools that have introduced the High-School-Credit-System, seeking to understand the needs and opinions of students, the primary users of these newly created credit-based spaces. In addition, this research identifies student-recommended improvement strategies for aspects of school spaces and proposes practical applications for these enhancements. The outcomes of this study provide valuable planning and design guidelines for new credit-based spaces as the High-School-Credit-System is expanded nationwide. This study selected three high schools located in Seoul that have implemented the High-School-Credit-System and agreed to cooperate with an investigation into their credit-based spaces. The research methodology involved the following steps: (1) a review of existing studies and case studies, followed by image analysis of credit-based spaces within high schools implementing the High-School-Credit-System online platforms; (2) on-site case studies of credit-based spaces within high schools implementing the High-School-Credit-System, based on the findings and analyses obtained from online case studies; (3) a questionnaire survey to assess the satisfaction levels of space users (students) with credit-based spaces and to explore their desired improvements; (4) a Photovoice survey to identify suggestions for credit-based space improvements proposed by space users (students). The primary findings are as follows: First, satisfaction survey results indicated that among the three types of credit-based spaces, students were most satisfied with learning spaces and least satisfied with sharing spaces. The highest satisfaction was reported for subject-specific classrooms, multipurpose rooms, and home-bases, while regular classrooms, libraries, and common rooms garnered the lowest satisfaction levels. Specifically, within learning spaces, regular classrooms had lower satisfaction in categories such as the effectiveness of natural elements and informativeness of classroom tags. For subject-specific classrooms, students expressed dissatisfaction with a lack of learning materials, desk arrangement, and desk design. For supporting spaces, students identified issues like noise and soundproofing problems and homogenization of learning spaces in self-directed learning spaces and study cafes, desk arrangement and design in multipurpose rooms, the small scale of libraries and meeting rooms and counseling rooms. For sharing spaces, dissatisfaction was noted in the space utilization and the size and arrangement of lockers in home-bases, and sleeping spaces, scale, and relaxation support facilities in common rooms. The average satisfaction level for these aspects was below average, indicating a need for improvement. Furthermore, when comparing student satisfaction with credit-based spaces among three high schools, no significant differences were observed. This suggests systemic challenges and successes among schools that have implemented the High-School-Credit-System. Second, the results of the investigation into desired improvements and suggested enhancements directly proposed by space users (students) for credit-based spaces revealed the following: In learning spaces, improvement points included “cramped desks” and “size and height of chairs”. In supporting spaces, such as self-directed learning spaces and study cafés, suggestions for improvement encompassed issues like “uncomfortable chairs with attached wheels and rigid materials”, “noise and soundproofing problems”, and “homogenization of space types”. For libraries, desired improvements included “inefficient seat arrangement” and “lack of sitting spaces”. In sharing spaces, highlighted improvement points were “cramped size”, “absence of plush seating”, “lack of sleeping spaces”, and “absence of entertainment or food options”. Proposed improvement measures included replacing wall colors with clean and refreshing tones, installing curtains, replacing chairs with comfortable materials suitable for prolonged sitting, and applying non-slip and simple- patterned flooring in learning spaces. In supporting spaces, recommended enhancements included expanding seating distances and creating spaces to address noise issues, introducing comfortable chairs, placing potted plants, and providing personal lighting. For sharing spaces, prioritized improvements involve expanding the number and size of common rooms, creating zones for reclining, and introducing plush seating, and incorporating potted plants. This study can propose directions for the design of credit-based spaces in middle and high schools, which will be officially implemented from 2025. It can also examine users’ responses to credit-based spaces and identify specific spatial requirements and improvement measures associated with the introduction of the High-School-Credit-System in middle and high schools. Additionally, the study can explore ways to utilize the increasing unused space due to decrease in the number of students or reconfigure existing school spaces based on user suggestions to enhance student well-being in credit- based spaces.

Detecting the changes of latent profiles in academic burnout of middle school students

신효정 Graduate School, Korea University 2012 국내박사

This study used latent transition analysis (LTA) to examine changes in academic burnout profiles during middle school times (grade 7th-2, 8th-1 and 8th-2). In addition, this study was to examine the effects of the covariates (i.e., gender, parent education, and coping strategy) in LTA model. To do so, the first goal was to identify profile of academic burnout for middle school students at each time point based on Maslach Burnout Inventory ? Student Survey (MBI-SS). For first aim, the following research question was presented: What kinds of burnout profiles would be identified among middle school students? The second goal was to describe developmental pattern of academic burnout throughout middle school using the LTA model. For the second aim, the following research question was presented: How do those profiles change over time? Finally, the third goal was to confirm effects of covariates for modeling change in academic profiles in LTA model. For last aim, the following research question was presented: What are the effects of covariate variables (i.e., gender, parent education, and coping strategy) on changes of academic burnout profiles over time? Total of 413 middle school students (TI: N=381, T2: N=375, T3: N=388) in Seoul, Korea participated in this study. The data was collected from one middle school of Seoul region of South Korea during three waves. Korean version of MBI-SS and Ways of Coping Checklist (WCC) were used to measure the levels of students? academic burnout and coping strategy. All instruments in the present study measured in the final of the semester. Mplus 5.0 and SPSS 18.0 were used to analyze the data. The results of the present study showed that the middle school students could be best described by three latent profiles representing degree of academic burnout across three times: ?distressed (DS)?, ?intermediate (IM)?, and ?well-functioning (WF)?. DS is high scores on all subscales although cynicism was slightly higher score than emotional exhaustion and inefficacy. IM is maintaining medium score on all subscales. WF is low scores on all subscales although emotional exhaustion and inefficacy was slightly higher score than cynicism. The result of the current study proved evidence that academic burnout profiles are understood according to the degree, rather than type of profiles, of academic burnout during the middle school years. In the next, results indicated that as student developed throughout middle school they were likely to transition out of the WF group and into the DS and IM group. Specially, non burned-out group, that is WF group, transited to IM group and even DS group. In addition, distressed group of the academic burnout showed stability, that is, less movement to another groups than the IM and WF groups. Further, the result showed that both active coping and passive coping consistently differentiated the academic burnout profiles throughout the course of middle school. Active coping was associated with higher percentage being in the WF versus DS. Conversely, passive coping was associated with decreased odds of being in the WF. Based on the results of the present study, there are several implications. Specifically, the present study can be utilized for designing prevention and intervention programs for middle school students as well as teacher and parents? training program for student discipline in school and counseling settings. First, helping professionals such as school counselors, teacher could understand the diverse types of academic burnout as well as conduct academic burnout interventions (e.g., preventing or decreasing students? academic burnout). Second, school counselors, teachers and parents should keen attention to WF group during middle school period. Because WF group students transited intermediate group very much over middle school time. These results imply that although students are adapting easily at the moment helping professional need to conduct prevention program for general students. To do so, helping professionals could plan prevention strategies through classroom guidance focusing on WF group students. In addition, since DS group of the academic burnout showed stability, professionals have to provide intensive treatment for being DS group students. Third, this result implies that helping professionals and parents should help to prompt active coping and refrain from passive coping. How to instruct effective coping strategy to manage academic burnout for students is very important. The study implies that teachers and parents? training to support students, as resources, could be good way to prompt active coping for middle school students. Moreover, it is crucial to implement prevention program to learn active coping and passive coping through the classroom guidance regularly. There are several limitations associated with the present study. First, it is important to note that academic profiles were different with previous study in this study. Thus, further research is needed in order to identify the academic profiles with other populations for middle school student. Second, in the present study, the results were obtained for predominantly one middle school students in an urban community. These results may differ for other samples with different characteristics (e.g., gender, grade, academic pressure). Thus, it would be useful to replicate the results in larger samples. Additionally, it would be interesting to explore the special samples of chronic academic burnout groups having high academic demanding for middle school students (e.g., international middle school) in longitudinal designs. Third, the time interval of the study was relatively short (six months). These reason resulted in little changes of levels of each burnout profiles in this study. Thus, future study need to extended periods. The lastly, all instruments in the present research were self-reported questionnaires. In the case of self-reported questionnaires, students who experience high level of academic burnout may report low levels of burnout symptoms to minimize or maximize their symptoms. Therefore, future studies should also consider including biological indicators (e.g., blood pressure, cortisol levels) of burnout and stress to help offset the use of self-reported instruments.

Development of physical activity and dietary behavior improvement program for boarding school students

김남희 Graduate School, Yonsei University 2022 국내박사

Factors affecting absenteeism of female students in public secondary school in province-2 of Nepal

Raju Prasad Sah Graduate School of Government, Business, and Entre 2019 국내석사

본 연구의 목적은 네팔 province-2 지역에 소재하는 공립중등학교 여학생들의 부등교(결석)에 영향을 미치는 원인에 대하여 조사연구 방법을 통하여 분석하고, 드러난 문제점을 해결하기 위한 방안을 모색하는 것이다. 개발도상국의 학교에서 학생들, 특히 여학생들의 부등교 및 중도탈락은 학교교육 정책에 관련된 중요한 이슈다. 네팔의 경우 다양한 원인에 의하여 여학생들의 학교출석 비율이 낮은 수준에 머물고 있으며, 이를 해결하기 위한 중앙정부 차원의 다각적인 노력이 이루어지고 있으나 실효성이 떨어지고 있다. 따라서 지역사회 및 학교, 학생 특성에 기인하는 학생결석 원인을 면밀히 분석하여 교육정책 수립 및 집행에 반영하는 것이 무엇보다 중요하다. 본 연구는 네팔 province-2의 Bara 와 Parsa 지역에 소재는 3개 공립중등학교에 재학 중인 여학생 120명(9-10학년, 나이는 11-19세, 생활가족수는 4-32명)을 대상으로 설문조사를 통하여 설정한 연구문제를 해결하고자 하였다. 설문조사는 현지에서 직접 조사형태로 이루어졌고, 수집된 데이터는 SPSS프로그램을 통해 기술통계 결과를 분석하였다. 조사결과를 요약하면 다음과 같다. 월경, 계절적 영향, 가족구조, 과제수행 등의 어려움이 여학생들의 결석률에 영향을 미치고 있는 것으로 나타났다. 그 외에도 다양한 변인들이 학교결석률에 영향을 미치고 있지만 앞의 변인들에서 특히 유의한 차이가 발견되었다. 본 연구 결과는 향후 네팔에서 지방교육의 교육환경 및 복지시스템 개선에 필요한 시사점을 제공할 것이다. There are several factors which affect regular presence of female students in school in developing countries. Lower attendance rate is seen as one of the vital hindrance in academic achievement; therefore it is suggested that the female students’ regularity is the direct indicator for the better academic result.The federal government has launched many programs to increase student’s enrollment and keep them regular at school. Some special programs are launched for economically weak and Dalit girls to maintain their regularity to school. The provincial government of province-2 is focusing on “Save girls and Educate girls” special program for female students’ empowerment, but the status of female students are not as better as expected. The female students in public secondary school are found more frequently being absent in comparison to male students. To find out what are the responsible factors causing frequent absenteeism in female students in public secondary school in province-2 of Nepal, a survey was conducted in Bara and Parsa districts out of eight districts of province-2. Data for this study was collected via personal interview of 120 students from the 9th-10th grades of 3 different schools from Bara and Parsa districts of province-2. As the focus point of this study was female students’ absenteeism, all the respondents, i.e. 69 and 51 girl students were from grade 9 and 10 respectively. The questionnaire including quantitative and qualitative questions were given to respondents and discussed to collect their response on demographic factors which had included number of siblings, education level and occupation of parents; physiological factor included menstruation; family and school related factors included parental dispute, household works, family functions, misbehavior of classmates and teachers, perception about school and incomplete homework and natural and geographical factors included seasonal effect and distance of school from residence of students. A descriptive analytical study of data collected by the survey showed that menstruation; seasonal effect; functions at home and incomplete homework had significant relation with absenteeism as they were responsible to increase absenteeism, Whereas, number of siblings, parents’ education and occupation, parental dispute, household activities and distance of school from residence, misbehavior by classmates and teachers had no relation with absenteeism. Female students’ absenteeism is seen as a critical problem in the public secondary school ofprovince-2 of Nepal which has direct relation to one’s academic performance. The students, who miss their classes often, are becoming poor performer which is causing not to attend school again as a vicious cycle.

Essays on the effects of early school enrollment and legal drinking age on risky behaviors and health outcomes

신유식 Graduate School, Korea University 2022 국내박사

본 논문은 취학 시기의 효과에 대한 연구와 청소년 음주 규제의 효과에 대한 연구로 구성되어 있다. 1장에서는 취학 시기가 학생들의 건강위험행동에 미치는 영향에 대해 분석한다. 2장에서는 자녀의 취학 시기가 어머니의 정신 건강에 미치는 전이 효과에 대해 분석한다. 3장에서는 한국의 청소년 음주 정책이 개인의 음주 행위에 미치는 영향에 대해 분석한다. 세계의 여러 나라들은 아동이 태어난 이후 몇 개월이 되었는지에 따라 학교에 입학할 수 있는 자격을 부여한다. 새 학기가 시작하는 시점에 최소 입학 연령을 가까스로 넘긴 아동이 바로 입학하는 경우, 반에서 나이가 가장 어린 상태가 된다. 이로 인한 불이익을 피하고자, 일부 부모는 해당 아동의 입학 시기를 1년 연기하는 선택을 한다. 이 경우, 해당 아동은 반에서 나이가 가장 많은 상태가 된다. 위와 같은 입학 시기의 선택이 아동에게 어떠한 영향을 미치는 지 파악하기 위해 현재까지 다수의 실증 연구들이 실시되어 왔다. 1장은 취학 시기가 학생들의 건강위험행동에 어떠한 영향을 미치는 지 분석한다. 구체적으로, 최소 입학 연령을 넘긴 아동이 입학을 미루지 않고 바로 입학하는 선택이 음주, 흡연, 성관계 행위에 어떠한 영향을 미치는 지 분석한다. 분석을 위해, 우리나라 12월 출생자들이 1월 출생자들에 비해 학교에 1년 빠르게 입학하는 점을 이용한다. 12월 출생자들은 1월 출생자들에 비해 1년 빠르게 입학하지만, 반에서 상대적으로 가장 어린 상태가 된다. 반면에, 1월 출생자들은 반에서 나이가 가장 많은 상태가 된다. 두 집단은 비슷한 시기에 출생했음에도, 외생적인 상황으로 인해 입학 시기에 차이가 발생하기 때문에 위의 효과를 추정하는 데 이용될 수 있다. 회귀불연속 방법론을 사용하여 추정한 결과, 학교를 1년 빠르게 입학하는 것은 음주, 흡연 시작 시기를 앞당기는 것으로 나타났다. 또한, 1년 빠르게 입학하는 것은 최근 30일 동안 음주, 흡연했을 확률을 상승시키는 것으로 나타났다. 이러한 결과는 남학생과 여학생 모두에게 나타났다. 2장은 최소 입학 연령을 넘긴 아동이 바로 입학하는 선택을 하는 것이 어머니의 정신 건강에 어떠한 영향을 미치는 지 분석한다. 다수의 문헌에 따르면, 해당 아동은 정서적, 신체적 발달 상태에 이점이 있는 급우들과 경쟁하기 때문에, 학업 성취도와 학교 적응에 있어 어려움을 겪는 가능성이 높은 것으로 보고되어 왔다. 이러한 부정적인 영향은 아동에게 국한되는 것이 아니라 가족 구성원에게도 영향을 미칠 수 있다. 특히, 대부분의 가정의 주양육자인 어머니의 정신 건강에 부정적인 영향을 미칠 가능성이 있다. 본 연구는 이를 분석하는 위해 호주의 학교 입학 규정에 따라 발생되는 외생적인 상황을 이용하였다. 분석 결과, 자녀의 1년 빠른 입학은 어머니의 불안감을 상승시키는 것으로 나타났다. 이질성 분석 결과, 이러한 영향은 여학생의 어머니와 소득이 낮은 가구의 어머니에게 두드러지는 것으로 나타났다. 자녀의 응답을 통해 분석한 결과, 여학생과 소득이 낮은 가구의 학생인 경우, 실제로 학교 적응에 어려움을 겪는 것으로 나타났다. 이는 학교에 1년 빠르게 입학하는 것이 아동에게 부정적인 영향을 미치고, 어머니의 정신 건강에도 부정적인 영향을 미칠 수 있음을 시사한다. 3장은 한국의 청소년 음주 규제의 효과성에 대해 분석한다. 한국의 청소년 보호법에 따르면, 만 19세가 되는 해의 1월 1일을 맞이하기 전까지는 청소년으로 규정되며, 주류 구입과 주류 판매 업소 출입이 제한된다. 이 정책의 효과성을 분석하기 위해 소위 빠른 년생 제도가 시행되던 시기의 1, 2월 출생자를 이용한다. 3월~12월생과 이듬해 1, 2월생은 같은 해에 초등학교에 입학하여 같은 해에 고등학교를 졸업한다. 3월~12월생은 대학교 1학년이 되는 해의 1월 1일부터 청소년 음주 규제의 적용을 받지 않는다. 반면에, 이듬해 1, 2월생은 해당 연도에 여전히 음주 규제를 적용 받게 된다. 따라서, 해당 연도의 3월~12월생과 1, 2월생의 음주 행위를 비교하여 청소년 보호법의 효과를 분석하였다. 분석 결과, 1, 2월생이 음주 규제의 적용을 받음에도 불구하고, 음주 참여 여부와 횟수에 대해서 3~12월생과 크게 차이가 없는 것으로 나타났다. In the first chapter, I investigate the impacts of early school enrollment on students’ risky health behaviors. In South Korea, those born in December begin school almost one year earlier than those born in January. Using a fuzzy regression discontinuity design which exploits the school entry rule in South Korea, I find that early school entry leads students to begin drinking and smoking earlier. In addition, it increases the likelihood of drinking and smoking participation over the previous 30 days. However, early school entry has little impact on lifetime sexual intercourse experience. The results of subgroup analysis indicate that my main findings are driven by both girls and boys. The robustness of my results is supported by the use of data from earlier years and various specifications. The second chapter examines the spillover effects of a child’s early school enrollment on their mother’s nervousness. Research has shown that early schooling may have an adverse impact on child development in the short run. If there is such an impact, it may spill over onto mothers, especially in relation to the mother’s mental well-being. To investigate the spillover effects, we utilize the data from the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children. A fuzzy regression discontinuity design is exploited to explore the spillover impacts of a child’s early schooling. We find that a child’s early enrollment increases the level of their mother’s nervousness in the year their child becomes seven. The impact is primarily detected among mothers of girls and mothers from low-income households. Using the responses of the children, we provide suggestive evidence that girls and children from low-income households were suffering from early schooling, and that the impacts might spill over into their mothers. In the last chapter, I analyze the effects of the legal drinking age laws in South Korea on alcohol consumption. In South Korea, an individual is legally allowed access to alcohol from January 1st of the year they turn 19. To investigate whether the regulation effectively restricts alcohol consumption, I compare those who were born around January, but who vary in terms of their status with regard to legal access to alcohol during one specific year. I find no impacts of the regulation on participation in and frequency of alcohol consumption. The findings indicate that strict enforcement and sanctions need to accompany the policy to prevent youth from accessing alcohol.

(The) impact of socio-economic factors on dropouts from primary school in Senegal

Dame Diop Graduate School of Government, Business, and Entre 2021 국내석사

The study aimed at assessing the impact of socioeconomic factors on dropouts from primary school in Senegal. The study sample comprised of 100 respondents divided into two groups 50 parents and 50 students. Secondary data was collected through structured questionnaire and various statistical tools were applied. Descriptive statistics was used to describe frequencies and percentages of the results, Chi-square test was used to examine the significance of association and logistic regression was used to find the relationship between independent and dependent variables of the study. The information collected from respondents were based on socioeconomic and demographic characteristics (gender, age, education and income level. Marital status, farms need more people, financial support from parents, farm size, intended age of marriage, parent’s work, student’s other occupation and parents bring children to farms) and school related factors (school events attendance, class repetition, school distance and frequency of parents control at home). It was observed that farm size, parents bring children to farms, age of student, other occupation for student, intended age of marriage and parent’s work had significant relationship with school dropout. The study recommends that the provision of education is necessary to clarify and educate people on the value of education for children to have a better future; the more people understand the importance of education, the lower the number of school dropout rates as a result the environment and economy of the society is improved. Thus education should be promoted to the communities as the key factor for socio-economic development. Besides, the government and education stakeholders should provide consultation to farmers, especially those who have small plots of lands knowing that they tend to send their children to the farm because they don’t have enough income to pay the school fees. So it requires supports for them instead of keeping their children out of school to support domestic chores or farming. Additionally, the government, NGOs and civil society’s organization should widen the employment opportunities to the local communities especially for the unemployed people because as the research shows people who don’t have work, their children tend to dropout school. Moreover, the awareness programs for the community such as the mindset change against negative traditional values that were reduced the pace of education to rural people should be eliminated henceforth. The Ministry of Education needs to outline the research agenda in view of developing strategies to improve access and success within the education sector, especially as regards to basic education. Research-based methods should be developed to reduce the dropout rate, especially in high poverty and remote rural schools. The research agenda should include: - Analysis of the effectiveness of policies and practices as well as determining policy gaps - Tracking cohorts of learners at risk of dropping out - Exploring best practices at schools and ensure their replication - Developing monitoring and evaluation instruments to assess progress and impact of policy and practice. 이 연구는 세네갈의 초등학교 중퇴자에 대한 사회경제적 요인의 영향을 평가하는 것을 목표로 한다. 학부모 50명과 학생 50명으로 나뉘어진 100명의 응답자를 대상으로 연구를 진행했다. 구조화된 설문지를 통해 2차 데이터를 수집하고 다양한 통계 도구를 적용했다. 기술 통계량은 결과의 빈도와 백분율을 기술하는 데 사용되었고, 카이 제곱 검정은 연관성의 유의성을 검사하는 데 사용되었으며 로지스틱 회귀 분석은 연구의 독립 변수와 종속 변수 사이의 관계를 찾는 데 사용되었다. 응답자에게 수집한 정보는 사회경제적 요인(성별, 연령, 교육과 소득 수준, 혼인 여부, 농장의 인원 보충 여부, 부모로부터의 경제적 지원, 농장 규모, 목표 혼인 연령, 부모의 직업, 학생의 다른 직업, 그리고 학생을 농장에 데리고 가는 부모 등)과 학교 관련 요인(교내 행사 참여, 수업의 반복, 학교까지의 거리, 그리고 부모의 통제 빈도 등)을 기반으로 하였다. 농장 규모, 학생을 농장에 데리고 가는 부모, 학생의 연령, 학생의 다른 직업, 목표 혼인 연령, 그리고 부모의 직업은 학교 중퇴에 중요한 관련이 있음이 관찰되었다. 이 연구는 아이들이 더 나은 미래를 향유할 수 있도록 교육의 가치를 명확히 하고 교육하기 위해 교육의 제공이 필요하다고 권고한다. 많은 사람들이 교육의 중요성을 이해할수록, 사회의 환경과 경제가 개선되는 결과로서 학교 중퇴율이 낮아질 것이다. 그러므로 교육은 사회 경제적 발전의 핵심 요소로서 지역사회에 촉진되어야 한다. 게다가, 정부와 교육 이해당사자들은 농부들, 특히 그들의 자녀들을 농장으로 보내는 경향이 있고 소규모의 농지를 소유한 농부들에게 자문을 제공해야 하는데 학교 등록금을 지불할 충분한 소득이 없기 때문이다. 따라서 학생들이 학교 외에 집안일 혹은 농장일을 거들도록 하는 대신 그들에 대한 지원을 요청한다. 추가적으로, 정부, NGO, 그리고 시민사회단체는 실업자들의 자녀가 학교를 중퇴하는 경향이 있기 때문에 이 실업자들을 위해 지역 사회로 취업 기회를 넓혀야 한다. 게다가, 농촌에 대한 교육의 속도를 줄인 부정적인 전통적 가치에 대한 사고방식 변화와 같은 지역사회를 위한 인식 프로그램은 앞으로 사라져야 한다. 교육부는 특히 기초교육과 관련하여 교육 분야 내에서 접근성과 성공을 향상시키기 위한 전략을 개발한다는 관점에서 연구과제의 개요를 제시할 필요가 있다. 특히 고빈곤과 외딴 시골학교에서 중퇴율을 줄일 수 있는 연구 기반의 방법을 개발해야 한다. 연구 과제는 다음을 포함해야 한다. - 정책 및 실행의 효과 분석 및 정책 격차 파악 - 중퇴 위험이 있는 학습자의 집단 추적 – 학교에서의 모범 사례 탐색 및 복제 보장 - 정책 및 실행의 진행 상태와 영향을 평가하기 위한 모니터링 및 평가 도구 개발

Effects of parent involvement on students' academic performance in Fiji

Vuniani Nakatabula Vasu Graduate School of Government, Business, and Entre 2021 국내석사

연구는 피지의 Vanuabalavu에 있는 Adi Maopa 중학교에서 중학생들의 학업성취에 부모의 개임이 미치는 영향을 탐구했다. 연령, 형제 자매 수, 학력, 가계 소득, 부모의 취업 상태와 같은 부모의 사회경제적 요인과 학생의 학업 성취도 사이의 관계를 연구하였다. 또한 성별 및 영어 능력과 같은 학생 요소에 중점을 두었다. 이와 함께 부모의 관여(양육, 학교와의 소통, 가정에서의 학습, 지역사회와의 협업)의 일부 측면과 학생들의 학업성취도와의 관계에도 초점을 맞췄다. 연구 샘플은 Adi Maopa 중학교에 재학 중인 학생 100명으로 구성되었으며, 이 학생들을 관찰하기 위해 학생과 학부모 100명을 대상으로 설문조사를 실시했다. 데이터 수집을 위해 학생과 학부모 모두에게 두 세트의 서로 다른 설문지가 제공되었으며, 데이터는 빈도, 카이-제곱, 상관 관계 및 로지스틱 회귀를 통해 분석되었다. 이 연구는 부모 연령, 교육 수준, 고용 상태와 같은 요인이 부모에게 영향을 미치는 것처럼 보였더라도 모든 부모의 사회학적 요소와 학생 요소가 더 나은 학업 성취도를 예측한다는 것을 밝혀내지 못했다. 하지만, 이 연구는 부모들의 참여와 학생들의 학업 성취 사이의 강한 연관성을 보여주었다. 이 연구는 정부가 정책 개혁을 통해 부모들의 참여를 강화하고 부모들의 개입을 개선하기 위한 워크숍을 구성할 것을 권고하고 있다. 학부모들에게, 야간 통행금지를 설정하고, 밖에서 노는 아이들의 시간, TV 시청 시간, 휴대전화 사용 시간, 컴퓨터 사용 시간을 감시하고, 출석률을 감시하고, 취침시간을 통제하고, 학교 규율과 규칙을 지원하는 것이 적극 권장된다. 이와 함께 학교 행정부는 학부모 참여를 막는 장벽(근무 시간에 학부모-교사 회의를 조직하고, 학부모에게 충분한 신뢰를 주지 않는 등)을 제거하고 투명하게 학교 자금을 관리하고 교내 문제에 대해 우려를 표하는 학부모를 따뜻하게 환영해야 한다. 이것은 부모들이 그들의 자녀 교육에 관여할 모든 권리를 가지고 있다는 것을 알게 할 것이다. 다른 하나는 학교장이 학교 프로그램과 진도에 대해 학교-가정 간, 가정-학교 간 의사소통 방법의 질적이고 효과적 활용을 보장해야 한다는 점이다. 또한 지방정부는 학교, 학부모, 지역사회가 긍정적인 소통의 기회를 더 많이 만들어야 한다. 대부분의 권고안은 학부모와의 워크숍 실시를 요구하기 때문에, 중앙정부는 각 학년 내에 학교장이 학부모에게 제공해야 하는 학부모 참여 형식에 대한 커리큘럼을 설계해야 한다는 의견이 높다. 이를 통해 학부모 대다수가 자녀 학업성취도에서 자신의 역할과 책임을 이해할 수 있게 된다. This research explored the effects of parental involvement on secondary school students’ academic achievement at Adi Maopa Secondary School in Vanuabalavu, Fiji. The relationship between parents’ socio-economic factors such as age, number of siblings, education level, household income and parent’s employment status and students’ academic achievement has been studied. Also it focused on student factors such as gender, English proficiency, attitude and term 1 exam result. Together with this, the study also concentrated on the relationship between some aspects of parental involvement (parenting, communicating with the school, learning at home, collaborating with the community) and students’ academic performance. The study sample consisted of 100 students attending Adi Maopa Secondary school and to observe these students, the survey was carried out to the 100 students themselves and their parents. Two sets of different questionnaire were given to both students and parents for the collection of data which were then analyzed through frequencies, chi-square, correlations and Logistic regression. This study did not reveal that all parents’ socio-demographic factors and student factors predict better academic achievement even if a factor like parent’s age, education level employment status, student’s attitude and student’s early exam result seemed to have an impact on them. However, the study revealed a strong connection between parental involvement and students’ academic achievement. The study recommends that the government strengthens parents’ involvement through policy reforms and organizes workshops to improve parental involvement. For parents, it is highly suggested to set curfews, monitor the children time of playing outside, TV watching hours, phones, computer; monitor attendance; control children bedtime and support the school discipline plan and rules. Together with this, schools’ administrations must try to eliminate barriers that prevent parental involvement, (organizing parents-teachers’ meetings at working hours, not giving enough credit or consideration to parents…), manage transparently the schools’ funds and warmly welcome parents who show concerns about the school matters. This will let parents know that they have all the rights to be involved the education of their children. The other one is that school heads must ensure to utilise quality and effective communication methods from school-to-home and from home-to-school about school programs and progress.Also the local government, must create more opportunities for positive communication among the school, parents, and community. Since most recommendations requires workshops to parents, therefore it is highly suggested that the central government must design a curriculum on parent involvement types that needs to be addressed by school heads to parents within each academic year. This will allow majority of the parents to understand their roles and responsibilities in their children academic performance.

Challenges facing the effective implementation of inclusive education program for children with disabilities in public primary schools in Limuru sub-county, Kiambu county in Kenya

Gitau Thomas Njoroge Graduate School of Government, Business, and Entre 2017 국내석사

케냐에서 장애가 있는 어린이는 초창기부터 특수 학교에 등록되어 있습니다. 이로 인해 일반 학교와 분리되어 있습니다. 이러한 사실을 깨닫고 정부와 핵심 교육 관계자들은 정규 학생과 함께 배울 주류 학교에 이러한 학습자를 포함시키는 것이 중요하다는 것을 깨달았습니다. 정부와 이해 관계자들의 많은 노력이 현실화되었습니다. 그러나 특수 교육을 필요로 하는 아동을 대상으로 하는 과정이 국가의 모든 주류 초등학교에서 성공하지 못했기 때문에 이는 제대로 이루어지지 못하고 있습니다. 이를 위해 케냐의 키암부 주에 있는 장애 아동을 위한 포괄적인 교육 프로그램의 효과적인 실행에 직면 한 어려움을 발견하기 위한 연구의 기초를 형성했습니다. 이 연구는 교육 기획자 및 기타 이해 관계자에게 제기된 문제에 대한 중요한 정보를 제공하고 문제에 대한 가능한 조치와 권장 사항을 제안했습니다. 이 연구는 셔먼과 우드 (Sherman and Wood, 1982)에 의해 발전된 평등 기회의 고전 이론에 기초를 두고 있습니다. 이 연구의 목적은 다음과 같습니다. Limuru Sub 주의 공립 초등학교에서 장애 아동을 위한 포괄적인 교육의 실시 상태를 탐색하고, 장애 아동을 위한 포함 과정의 효과적인 시행을 방해하는 요인을 파악하고, 직면한 과제에 대한 그럴듯한 제안 및 응답을 수립합니다. 이 연구는 설명 된 목표와 연구 질문에 대답하기 위해 데이터를 수집 할 때 서술적인 설문 조사 디자인을 채택했습니다. 이 연구는 교사 및학부모들 사이에서 진행되었습니다. 대상 인구에는 그 지역에 있는 40 개의 공립 초등학교, 40 명의 선생님, 546 명의 초등 교사 및 약 5,000 명의 부모가 포함되었습니다. 이 연구 샘플에는 포괄적인 교육 프로그램을 제공하는 14 개의 모든 공립 초등학교가 포함되었습니다. 14 개 학교의 교사 중 14 명이 선발되었으며, 56 명의 교사, 각 4 명의 샘플링 학교에서 4 명, 각 학교의 56 명의 학부모 4 명이 포함되었습니다. 총 126 명의 응답자가 응답했습니다. 조사 도구에는 설문지, 관찰 체크리스트, 인터뷰 일정 및 문서 분석이 포함되었습니다. 분석에는 질적 및 양적 분석이 모두 포함되었습니다. 질적 분석은 기존 문헌의 결론을 고려한 반면 정량적 분석은 빈도수 및 평균 분포, 표, 합계 및 수집 된 데이터를 의미있는 그룹 및 추후 분석을 위한 표로 응축하기 위한 백분율 계산에 나타난 응답자의 의견에 대한 결론과 관련되어 있습니다. 수집 된 데이터는 SPSS (Statistical Package for Social Sciences)를 사용하여 분석되었으며 빈도 테이블 및 비율의 형태로 제공되었습니다. 이 연구는 포괄적 인 교육의 실행 상태가 육체 및 보조 시설, 교사의 교육 및 교육 자원, 부모의 요인 및 아동의 참여 과정을 가로막는 장벽으로 작용한 사회적 문화적 측면에서 수많은 도전에 직면했다는 것을 발견할 수 있었습니다. 이러한 문제를 해결하기 위해 학교 시설 및 커리큘럼의 수정을 보다 포괄적이고 조정 가능하게 만들고 포괄적인 교육을 처리하기 위해 더 많은 교사를 양성하기 위한 노력을 강화해야 합니다. 장애 문제에 대한 인식 창출과 포괄적인 교육의 필요성에 있어 주요 교육 이해 관계자 들간의 공동 노력이 있어야 합니다. 또한 포괄적인 교육을 지원하기 위해 자금이 증가해야 합니다. 케냐의 주 정부는 또한 포괄적인 교육 프로그램을 시행함에 있어 주요 이해 관계자로서 인정 받고 참여해야 합니다. Children with disabilities have in Kenya have been enrolled in special schools since the early years of independence. This led to their segregation from the regular schools. On realizing this, the government and the key education stakeholders realized the importance of having these learners included in the mainstream schools where they would learn with the regular pupils. A great deal of effort from the government and the stakeholders have been made to make this a reality. However, this has not been successful since the inclusion process for children with special learning needs have not been successful in all the mainstream primary schools in the country. This formed the basis of the study in trying to find out the challenges faced in the effective implementation of the inclusive education program for children with disabilities in Limuru Sub County of Kiambu County in Kenya. The study sought to provide valuable information on the challenges to educational planners and other stakeholders and suggest possible measures and recommendations to the problem. The study was based on the on the Classical Theory of Equal Opportunities advanced by Sherman and Wood (1982). The objectives of the study were; To explore the status of implementation of inclusive education for children with disabilities in public primary schools in Limuru Sub County, to determine the factors hindering the effective implementation of the inclusion process for children with disabilities and to establish the plausible suggestions and responses to the challenges facing the implementation of an inclusive education program for children with disabilities. The study adopted a descriptive survey design in collecting data in order to answer the outlined objectives and the research questions. The study was carried out among teachers, head teachers and parents. The target population included 40 public primary schools in the area, 40 head teachers, 546 primary school teachers and about 5000 parents. The study sample included all the 14 public primary schools offering inclusive education program. From the 14 schools, all the 14 head teachers were selected, 56 teachers, four from each sampled school and 56 parents 4 from each school were also included. This gave a total of 126 respondents. The research instruments included questionnaires, observation checklists, interview schedules and document analysis. The analysis included both qualitative and quantitative. The qualitative analysis considered the conclusions from the existing literature while Quantitative analysis involved the conclusions on the respondents' opinions presented in frequency counts and mean distributions, tabulation, totals and calculation of percentages aimed at condensing the data collected into meaningful groups and tables for further analysis. Data collected was analyzed using Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) and presented in form of frequency tables and percentages. The study found out that the status of implementation of inclusive education was faced with numerous challenges in terms of physical and aiding facilities, teachers’ training and teaching resources, parental factors and social cultural factors which acted as barriers to the process of inclusion of children with disabilities. In addressing the challenges, more efforts need to be enhanced in the modification of school facilities and curriculum to become more inclusive and accommodative and to train more teachers to handle the inclusive education. There should be concerted efforts among the key educational stakeholders in awareness creation on the disability issues and the need for inclusive education. There should be increased funding to support inclusive education. The County governments in Kenya should also be recognized and involved as major stakeholders in the implementation of inclusive education programs in the country.

(An) analysis of recognition characteristics and acceptance factors on locally unwanted land use : focused on special schools for the disabled

Seo, Junseok Graduate School, Yonsei University 2018 국내박사

This study was carried out with two sub-themes in the process of seeking ways to increase the local acceptance of special schools for the disabled. The first sub-theme was to analyze the subjective recognitions of the interested parties in Gayang-dong who were in conflict with each other in relation to the establishment of a special school for the disabled. The subjective recognitions of the people were analyzed using Q methodology, and were classified into four recognition types. The characteristics of each type are as follows: Type 1 is the group opposing the facility (active). This type is characterized by distrust of government, the initiative of residents and compensation claims. It strongly rejects the establishment itself of the special school for the disabled. This type has such a strong distrust of government (including the local government and the Ministry of Education) that they deny or discredit all administrative procedures in the establishment of the school, and maintain the position that local residents should take all initiatives in the establishment process, while strongly asking for economic compensation. In addition, recognizing the special school for the disabled as an abominable facility, Type 1 has the most negative recognition on the facility itself among the four types. Type 2 can be explained as consenting to the facility (neutral), while placing an emphasis on proper procedure / institutional support and the need for compensation. This type of people has little negative attitude toward the establishment of a special school for the disabled, but emphasizes the importance of following the proper procedure and system in establishing the school and thinks it necessary to make compensation to the residents from a neutral viewpoint. What is noticeable is that all of the 10 persons selected from the public officials of Education Office and the experts were classified as Type 2. This has a significant implication, in that the policy executives and expert group have a neutral position that is different from that of local residents in establishing a special school for the disabled. Type 3 can be explained with the opposition to the facility (passive) and the request for procedural/institutional supplements and compensations. Although this type opposes the establishment itself of a special school for the disabled, they have some positive opinions that the conflict can be alleviated through the process of supplementing the design plan and the use of the school, emphasizing the need for a clear system in selecting the location. This type can potentially turn into the consent group depending on how the system is supplemented, or the procedure of compensation is carried out. However, they resolutely oppose the moral approach that the special school for the disabled should be established unconditionally in the area just because it is a facility for the weak, and ask for compensation as strongly as Type 1. In that they do not want their opposing position to be known to their children and neighbors, it is a type of NIMBY tendency that has an internal discomfort with its own position. Type 4 is the group who actively consents to the facility but requests the supplementation of the procedure/system and the compensation. They have the opinion that since the special school for the disabled is a facility for the socially weak, the local residents should gain some disadvantages from its establishment, and that the conflict can be alleviated through complementing the design plan and the use of the school. However, they think it necessary to plan the establishment of the school in consideration of regional equity, and to supplement the procedure and system so that the local residents can agree to them. Through this analysis of the recognition characteristics of the four types, the following implications can be derived: First, by understanding the characteristics of the opposing groups that are classified as Types 1 and 3, we may find ways to increase the acceptance of these groups. Type 1 rejects the facility itself and denies all possibilities for alleviating the conflict. Meanwhile, Type 3 has an internal conflict, in that they oppose the facility itself but recognize that the conflict can be mitigated through a complementary process at the planning stage. They commonly think that the local residents may suffer unfairly due to the establishment of the facility, so they ask for more equitable planning so as to raise the positive recognition level of the local residents in the establishment process of the facility. In addition, both types claim the compensation procedures for the area and individual residents with a rational standard in the physical and psychological respects. Second, with the recognition characteristics of Type 2, we can understand the neutral and objective positions of the policy makers and specialists, and at the same time, their cognitive difference from local residents. The policy makers need to check their cognitive difference from the local residents and make efforts to narrow it down. Third, through the analysis of Type 4, we can see that some supplementary efforts are necessary in order to increase the acceptance even among those who consent to the establishment of the facility. This group of people is basically favorable but still thinks it necessary to raise the regional equity, to provide compensation and to complement the procedure and system so that the local residents can sufficiently consent. It seems desirable to reflect these points in the policy. The second sub-theme was to draw out the local acceptance factors related to the special school for the disabled and to analyze their influences. It is significant in that the recognitions on the special school for the disabled derived in the way of hypothesis creation through the Q methodology were analyzed to examine how they influenced the pros and cons of the school establishment. To accomplish this, 34 statements with a typicality score(Z-Score) of ± 1 or greater were selected from the Q statements, and a 7-point Likert scale was used to construct the questionnaire regarding local acceptance. The questionnaire survey was conducted on 424 residents in Seoul. The 34 statements on local acceptance were classified into factors through the factor analysis, and each factor was defined using the characteristics that can commonly explain the statements constituting each factor. As a result, 6 local acceptance factors were derived: positive recognition (on the disabled people, the facilities, the plan and the procedure), negative recognition (on the disabled people, the facilities, the plan and the procedure), collection of residents' opinions, economic rewards, economic impacts, and local equity. To analyze the influence of local acceptance factors, a structural equation model analysis was performed. As a result, the research hypothesis (H1) “The higher the positive recognition, the higher the local acceptance” turned out to be positively(+) significant, as its Beta value was 0.671(p<.001) in the parameter estimation. The hypothesis (H5) “The greater the economic impacts, the higher the local acceptance” also turned out to be positively(+) significant, as its Beta value was 0.195(p<.001) in the parameter estimation. However, with the exception of the positive recognition and the economic impacts, no other statistically significant results could be obtained. The relation between the negative recognition and the local acceptance turned out to be statistically insignificant, as its Beta value was -0.183(p>.05). The relation between the collection of residents' opinions and the local acceptance turned out to be statistically insignificant, as its Beta value was -0.02(p>.05). The relation between the economic compensation and the local acceptance was also statistically insignificant, as its Beta value was 0.034(p>.05). And the relation between the local equity and the local acceptance was also statistically insignificant, as its Beta value was 0.011(p>.05). In this study, the hypothesis that positive recognition on the facilities and the ripple effects on the local economy can significantly raise the local acceptance on the special school for the disabled was statistically verified. This suggests that the institutional complement and the policy consideration to raise these two factors will be necessary in the future process promoting the policy.